When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

It's really fun to say no sometimes. I just don't want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and - as a girl - it's important to know how to say no... and that no means no!

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.